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The Battle Of Midway

by: John Ford

Publication date: 1942

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: WWII, war, documentary

Item Size: 1.3G

Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, standout director John Ford was actually injured during filming.

More info on the film is available on its IMDB page.

This version was produced from a video copy of a fair film transfer at the National Archives.

NAIL: 80-MN-1433
ARC: 12870

Addeddate: 2005-05-11 08:03:43

Closed captioning: no

Color: color

Director: John Ford

Identifier: the_battle_of_midway

Run time: 18min

Sound: sound

Type: MovingImage

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Reviews (5)

Reviewer: RYAN EUGENE CASTER - - January 9, 2019
Subject: Excellent

This is excellent. The other reviewers seem to be comparing this to modern films instead of what it was/is. It may be a 'propaganda film' however the ...

Reviewer: zim-a-dee-do-da - - October 20, 2015
Subject: Not a documentary

This is a propaganda film, made to be shown in movie theaters between the cartoon and the news reel before the feature. All it is is raw footage with ...

Reviewer: sirderek - - June 30, 2011
Subject: Dull

Very slow moving. No real action till "midway" thru the film. Out of focus home movies mostly. Not recommended to view.

Reviewer: k-otic.com - - May 27, 2005
Subject: new copy

too bad that this copy is so extremly blurry
you can hardly see something
i`m going to upload a better copy of this

Reviewer: Violet Red Bile - - May 21, 2005
Subject: Not as interesting as I thought

Downloaded the 1 gig MPEG2-version since the 256 kbit/s MP4 -version didn't work. Somehow this documentary just disappointed. Sure there was some real ...

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